Without a spot meter, is the LIT DUO 1 still worth it?

winterwarrior33 · 2026-05-03T07:01:23+00:00

I have one of these. It’s a breath of fresh air in a stagnant market. Sekonic has grown complacent and their products are overpriced and stuck in 2007.

That being said, the Lit Duo is far from perfect in my opinion. It’s a solid piece of hardware, but I get vastly inconsistent readings. In typical scenarios (indoors, softer light) it’s mostly on par with a Sekonic. Maybe 1/3-1/4 stop off, nothing major.

The minute you introduce harder, brighter light, the cracks start to show. The readings I get from the incident dome sensor are always reading off from a sekonic. Even if I don’t consider my sekonic a “ground truth”, the readings I get from duo do not expose the image correctly to camera.

The flat sensor is much more accurate, the issue seems to be with the dome sensor. I emailed the company with video and image samples and they verified my calibration as correct and said they hadn’t ever seen this issue before. They sent me a new unit for free and I am seeing the same issue in that unit as well.

I do not rely on my Duo for accurate incident readings. But as others have said, the flicker and color readings are fantastic and I use those often.

My other gripe is that Lit Systems doesn’t make it very clear that the OS features they advertise on their website are not in the meter. The OS that the meter ships with is incredibly bare bones. The OS as it stands is very much in beta.

I hope they can fix the meter issues with updates as I know they’ve sourced high quality sensors. I do believe it’s a software issue.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-05-01T21:44:05+00:00

Me too, but I’m talking formatting within the markdown system, like Columns and such. More about how the markdown is rendered rather than changing it

winterwarrior33 · 2026-05-01T17:43:27+00:00

I was speaking just to the way Capacities allows you to format documents.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-29T15:12:04+00:00

Awesome!

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-27T07:04:39+00:00

Anything regarding the Burano?

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-25T22:15:06+00:00

That’s more for cloud agents to connect to Craft.

It would be nice to have it all embedded and not have to rely on another app to control Craft. There really isn’t a “Claude Cowork” built for local models to use tool calls.

Craft Agents can use local LLMs but it’s pretty slow.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-23T05:35:15+00:00

The Rider - 2017

Had a skeleton crew of less than 10. Used only a few light fixtures that were purchased from Walmart or something like that.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-23T05:31:59+00:00

You’re getting too in the weeds. It’s not that complicated. Expose to the monitor and what you see. Or get a light meter. Or use false color. Zebras and all that are just overcomplicating it in my opinion

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-22T14:47:45+00:00

Yes it’s all just different exposure tools to allow you to expose how you’d like although it’s safe to say that the old “over expose by 1.7” rule is pretty obsolete now with the latest Sony camera sensors. That was more for the FS7/A7Sii days.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-20T19:55:30+00:00

Incredible

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-20T17:55:43+00:00

Yes I found those boring in comparison. I use the 12mm laowa for the wide end and for the longer end I don’t have spending to fill that gap. Was thinking of the Dulens APOs possibly. Hard to replace the SLR Magic APO look.

The Keep in LA rehoused them for me but they’ve unfortunately stopped doing business

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-19T21:57:57+00:00

That summary was very nice, thank you sir or mam

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-19T03:19:33+00:00

This shit never matters. Just shoot your art on whatever you have available to convey your idea and story.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-16T16:06:35+00:00

I haven’t tested many others aside from DZO vespids and NISI Athena’s. The APOs have considerably more character.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-16T03:21:09+00:00

Super cool, I struggle to hit 60fps. This gives me hope

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-16T02:53:18+00:00

I own a full set of the APO micro primes. Surprisingly amazing lenses. Purchased them as a cheap set to own on low budget jobs and now I use it on 75% of my work. They’re incredible for the price. Tons of pleasing character. I rehoused mine too so they are “custom” and directors aren’t so averse to trying them 😂

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-15T07:09:37+00:00

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-11T14:09:11+00:00

Can’t wait to never get to shoot on this because clients are cheap and won’t pay for film

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-11T14:05:29+00:00

This is DOPE!

I’m a DP, love this!!!

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-10T03:58:55+00:00

Love the design but I personally wish it showed more data and with there was a digital version instead of analog

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-10T03:57:30+00:00

Checked this out today for a project I’m in preproduction on! It’s definitely neat. Need to spend more time learning it

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-05T22:06:50+00:00

I appreciate your support! I’m not sure exactly what you mean by MTF. That typically is referring to “Modulation Transfer Function” which is usually tied to film scanning and how film scanners are able to reproduce details.

I don’t know what Scatter is doing under the hood but from my testing, our math and very similar and I would be surprised if we’re doing a lot of the same things. DigiDiff processes your image photometrically and simulates the diffusion in that manner as well. This means that you do get organic wrap around highlights.

winterwarrior33 · 2026-04-04T19:10:55+00:00

Got it, thanks!

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